Upon realizing that the name was more readily connected with the Hindu god Shiva, he removed the letter " h " from the title to lessen this association.

" There is no Shiva without Shakti, or Shakti without Shiva.

no: Vandana Shiva

For example a person can be a devotee to Shiva and a Vishnu devotee but one can practice the Advaita Vedanta philosophy which believes there is no difference between Brahman and a person's individual soul.

A Smartist would have no problem worshiping Shiva or Vishnu together as he views the different aspects of God as leading to the same One God.

Daksha had no choice but to get Sati married with Shiva.

Daksha then went on to insult Shiva ; and as Sati's rage at the disrespect toward Shiva peaked, she declared to her father, " I will tolerate no more of your filth " and she released the inner consuming fire, and fell dead at Daksha's feet.

Shiva examined him, and, satisfied that he had broken his back and was thus no longer a threat, left him.

Khajuraho has no forts because the Chandel Kings never lived in their cultural capital. The Matangeshwar Shiva temple was Built by King Chanradeo Chandel Dynasty of Rajpoot, the King was devotee of lord Matangeshwar Shiva, there is 8 feet Linga of Lord Shiva in temple ,, The MATANGDEV was the 10th Incarnation of Lord Shiva. The Matangdev was born in Patna / Pataliputra town which is historical city of Bihar state of India, Maheshwary community of Sindh, Gujarat and Maharashtra are the devotee of lord Matangdev which is known as Matangeshwar Shiva and also known as MAHESHWAR SHIVA, Matrunjay Shiva, so that Maheshwary caste is attached with Maheshwar Shiva, Temple is known for its Art Sculpture and statue and is tourist attraction and world famous temples.

She pleaded to her brother Shiva — the Lord of Varanasi — who granted her the boon that no pilgrimage to Varanasi would be deemed complete without her worship.

Gulmohars and Jacarandas were planted by the British along the avenues of Civil Lines, as were other flowering trees, while the Old City contains almost no vegetation or parks, except for a few isolated pipal trees, holy to the Hindus, as it is supposed to be the abode of Lord Shiva.

Hindu temples once located in Ma ' bad al Banyan and Bayt al Pir, no longer exist ; the only active Hindu temples today are the Muthi Shwar temple located in Al-Hawshin Muscat, the Shiva temple located in Muttrah, and the Krishna temple located in Darsait.

Shiva appeared as a second pillar of light and cursed Brahma that he would have no place in ceremonies while Vishnu would be worshipped till the end of eternity.

Shiva appeared as a second pillar of light and cursed Brahma that he would have no place in ceremonies while Vishnu would be worshipped till the end of eternity.

When Batman doses her with sodium pentothal, Shiva claims to have no children, confirming that Jason is not her son.

Still, although Shiva is no longer an active member of the Birds of Prey, she continues to be protective of her former teammates.

When Barbara later asks the others who called Shiva, no one responds.

Lord Shiva assured her that she would be born as a man in her next birth ( and still she would recall her past ) and will be instrumental in Bhishma's death, thus satisfying her vow.

In the last portion of the third chapter, Mahesvara ( Shiva ) alone is said to pervade reality and shine in every heart of man.

It is believed that lord Shiva has founded Veerashaiva Philosophy, ever since the man is born on the earth.

According to some inscriptions, King Shiva Deva used to say that Amshuverma was a man of universal fame and he always destroyed his enemies by his heroic nature.

* Ravana: according to the Ramayana, as a young man Ravana undertakes a terrible penance, lasting over 1000 days to please Lord Shiva.

Shiva consoles Madhura and says she will become a beautiful woman and be married to a great valorous man.

Though Sultan and his right-hand man Shiva ( Makrand Deshpande ) manage to escape, the operation is deemed a success as the team is able to intercept a large consignment of lethal arms and ammunition meant for terrorist acts around the country.

" So Shiva created a man named Agastya ( Agatheesar in tamizh, Agasthyar in Grantha Tamizh ) with his mind in order to offer the boons.

As a young man, he was a devotee of Shiva but he later followed Rama and was more interested in salvation, from which came the inspiration to translate the Bhagavata Purana.

The terrible god is called " The Archer ", and the bow is also an attribute of Shiva.

In general, the Angkorian Khmer represented and worshipped Shiva in the form of a lingam, though they also fashioned anthropomorphic statues of the god.

One of the names of the god Shiva is Mrigavyadha, which translates as the deer hunter (" mriga " means deer, " vyadha " means hunter ).

He leaves references to the sexual organs as in the original: persistent usage of the words " lingam " and " yoni " to refer to them in older translations of the Kama Sutra is not the usage in the original Sanskrit ; he argues that " to a modern Hindu " lingam " and " yoni " mean specifically the sexual organs of the god Shiva and his wife, and using those words to refer to humans ' sexual organs would seem irreligious.

Nataraja or Nataraj, (), The Lord ( or King ) of Dance ; Telugu: నటర ా జ ; Tamil: க ூ த ் தன ் ( Koothan ); Kannada: ನಟರ ಾ ಜ, is a depiction of the god Shiva as the cosmic dancer who performs his and divine dance to destroy a weary universe and make preparations for the god Brahma to start the process of creation.

Before the birth of Narendra, she yearned for a son and asked a relative at Varanasi to make religious offerings to the god Shiva.

Bhuvaneswari Devi accepted the child as a boon from Shiva and named him Vireswara, meaning " powerful god " in Bengali.

But, it is explicitly stated in Buddhist sutras that the worship of an Ishvara ( an ancient South Asian term for a creator god, most likely not referring to the Abrahamic God who may not have been known in South Asia during the Buddha's lifetime, but given the context meaning either Shiva, Kali or Brahma ) is unnecessary to the attainment of Nirvana, as the Buddha believed worshipers are still trapped in an endless cycle of rebirth ( Samsara ).

Shiva only created all religion & there god on earth & in universe.

Every religion on Earth see there god in the form of light, the spread of some beam light, Islam noor, Christian rays of light it nothing but it Shiva.

The accounts of the emergence of life within the universe vary in description, but classically the god Brahma, from a Trimurti of three gods also including Vishnu and Shiva, is described as performing the act of creation, or more specifically of " propagating life within the universe " with the other two deities being responsible for preservation and destruction ( of the universe ) respectively.

The common name " datura " has its roots in ancient India, where the plant was considered particularly sacred — believed to be a favorite of the Hindu god Shiva Nataraja.

Medang's religion centred on the Hindu god Shiva, and the kingdom produced some of Java's earliest Hindu temples on the Dieng Plateau.

They come to Mayapore, a desolate village in northern India, where the poor villagers believe them to have been sent by the Hindu god Shiva and enlist their help to retrieve the sacred Sivalinga stone stolen from their shrine, as well as the community's children, from evil forces in the nearby Pankot Palace.

* Esvara, or Isvara, is a suffix referring to the god Shiva.

Yama ( the god of death and justice ) is said to live in Kailash along with his master Shiva.

Also known as Brahman ( the infinite manifestation the universe-not to be confused with Atman, the manifestation of god within a body ; somewhat comparable to a soul ), all others are considered his aspects, or avatars ,-Vishnu, the protector or preserver, and Shiva, the destroyer, are the main examples of this, due to them being more popular aspects of the Ultimate Reality.

In Hinduism, the god Shiva is simultaneously destroyer and creator, portrayed as Shiva Nataraja ( Lord of the Dance ), which is proposed as the source of the Western notion of " creative destruction ".

It has been argued that Sombart's formulation of the concept was influenced by Eastern mysticism, specifically the image of the Hindu god Shiva, who is presented in the paradoxical aspect of simultaneous destroyer and creator.

The theonym Shiva originates as an epithet of Rudra, the adjective shiva " kind " being used euphemistically of the god who in the Rigveda also carries the epithet ghora " terrible ".

Usage of the epithet came to exceed the original theonym and by the post-Vedic period ( in the Sanskrit Epics ), and the name Rudra has been taken as a synonym for the god Shiva and the two names are used interchangeably.

Parvati is nominally the second consort of Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction and rejuvenation.